The Unspoken, Unrecognized Sin

The Unspoken, Unrecognized Sin

There is a sin that resides at the core of all sin. It is the genesis of all relevant sin that affects the mind, heart, and soul of mankind, and it is downplayed to the point that it is even denied as a sin by those who seek for an easy to define sin that focuses on the end point; the result that follows a progression from this elementary sin.

It is the sin of faithlessness, also known as the sin of unbelief.

The definition derived at by Adventism obscures this sin to the point it is even denied as being a sin, where sin is defined as the transgression of the Decalogue of the old covenant law, based on half of a passage of Scripture massaged further that ignores both the English and the Greek of that entire verse.

The sin of unbelief is born of an evil heart, used to describe the Hebrews who were given the law and their progeny that followed after them by the author of Hebrews who describes a “rest” a “sabbatismos” that the Hebrews, who had the Sabbath (Gr. Sabbaton) could not enter into due to their faithlessness and unbelief; their evil hearts of unbelief.

But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? °And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? °So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. — Hebrews 3:17-19

The author of Hebrews refers to Psalms 95 in this regard.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: °Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. — Psalms 95:10-11

For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. — Hebrews 4:3

The works carried out prior to this rest God entered into were finished from the foundation of the world, which is what the narrative in the opening verses of Genesis describe “In the beginning” that being Creation Week. God entered into a rest from that finished work of Creation and He is quite literally still in that “rest” from that finished work; a cessation of a work that was complete. Whole. Finished. Done.

Understand the implications. God SWORE in His wrath the faithless; the unbelieving cannot and will not enter into His rest with Him that He finished at the foundation of the world. They are barred from entry, but the faithful and believing do join Him in His rest from that work of Creation.

Where is God? In His Heaven; His kingdom.

Who enters into His kingdom, Heaven? Those who keep the law, like as did the Pharisees Jesus described as evil children of the devil, doing the will of their father the devil? Or some other category of people? The author describes them as “believing” – the faithful, and Scripture tells us plainly enough it is the believing and faithful who enter into this rest with God, where we read in the Scriptures that the law is NOT OF FAITH.

The faithless are relegated to the wrath of God, seeing as they are faithless; unbelieving. So I ask you, what did the faithless, unbelieving Hebrews receive that produced this wrath God spoke of?

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. — Romans 4:15

Understand the logic flow. The law works wrath; produces wrath. If there were no law, then there is no transgression. And if there is no transgression, there is no wrath resulting from the law and transgression.

The faithlessness and unbelief is in relation to God Himself; not the law. The faithless, unbelieving Hebrews heartily embraced the law, where they had the shadow-Sabbath they entered into weekly when it came about; a temporary rest from the physical works carried out the previous six days of physical labor; typology of God’s eternal rest from a finished work He entered into on that seventh day of Creation Week; a rest Jesus refers to as a rest for the SOUL and not a physical rest following physical labor; a sabbath described in Colossians 2 as a shadow with no substance, whereas it is Jesus wherein we find ‘substance’ that the weekly Sabbath did not possess, a substance that now offers the believing and faithful a rest for the SOUL; a “cessation” of one’s former works, of the flesh; works of the unbelieving and faithless that eventually lead to death, and not eternity of rest with God and His rest.

I write this knowing full well the faithless and unbeleiving do not believe this, for they equivocate God with the law, so that to believe in the law is to believe in God; an assumption that holds no truth. For even God stated to Moses that they were to be given that law, thundered out at Mount Sinai, so that the Hebrews would believe Moses forever; not God. The Hebrews were ready to embrace anything other than God, including a gilded cow they also equivocated with God, calling it the god who brought them up out of Egypt.

Faith; belief, also involves trust – trusting God, explicitly. Completely.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. — Psalms 146:3

You are a ‘son of man’ and you are not even to trust yourself.

Recall the narrative where a wealthy man asks Jesus what “good” thing he, personally, could do in order to acquire eternal life. Jesus replies in regards first to his reference to “good” which goes right over the heads of faithless people, where Jesus states that only God is good. And if only God is good, then, according to how God judges, only God can do good. He, being a man born with the “deceitful and desperately wicked heart” could not do good. The best he could do, given his condition as a ‘man’ was to keep the commandments and thus never sin; an impossible task that those with the evil hearts of unbelief cannot accomplish, but are convinced they can, and do; their deceitful heart that cannot be trusted, telling them they can. You might believe you can keep the law if you ignore your evil heart; deny its existence, and reject Jesus’ teaching regarding the fruits or works wrought by those devoid of God’s Spirit; the “new heart” that enables one to produce good works.

Evil people, with the evil hearts of unbelief, cannot produce good works. It is interesting then that God gave them the Sabbath; a day where they were commanded not to do ‘any’ work on that day; a day stated to be a “holy convocation” in Leviticus chapter 23, where all of Israel; all the Hebrews were seen as being in the presence of God on that day, where extra sacrifices for sin were required at the temple, on a day no one was working, ergo no one was actively sinning by working works that were only evil in the sight of God who judges according to the heart.

Let this sink in. They were not working on the Sabbath, which would ‘logically’ equate to resting from their evil works brought about by an evil heart of unbelief, but there were additional sacrifices for sin on the Sabbath anyway. Their sin of unbelief and faithlessness did not go away on the Sabbath.

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Acts 17:11

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